Services/Donations

The organization has three Programs. The first is designed to ensure veteran housing and training facilities are safe and modified to meet ADA compliance for all veterans. The second will enhance the annual campaign to ensure steady support of Veteran’s Recreation & Rehabilitation Center programs during challenging economic times. A third program will provide capital for community programs not funded under the annual campaign endowment.

Implementation

Implementation will begin during our Washington State expansion.Purpose is to provide housing to homeless/unemployed veterans and their families and give veterans an opportunity to acquire housing through the program. The program requires unemployed and homeless veterans to assist in renovating, remodeling or rebuilding homes previously seized by banks, abandoned or dilapidated.

Reasons for Implementation:Research indicates approximately 200,000 veterans are homeless on any given night and as many as 400,000 experience homelessness during the year.

97 percent of homeless veterans are males and a vast majority of them are single.

More than 66 percent of veterans are addicted to drugs and/or alcohol.

The severe economic recession and unemployment have caused veterans to walk away from their homes.

Our nation averages 22 reported Veteran suicides a day. We believe, with our additional veteran family support and services, we can reduce these numbers.

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Veteran’s Apprenticeship Programs we are working on but is not funded at this time.

Veteran Village and Training Program﻿

We have a tentative date of June 1, 2018 to acquire and start opening operations with the Rocky Mountain Veterans Village just outside La Junta, CO. This program will be year-round veteran support center to include of cleaning, maintenance, developing group activities with employed and volunteer staff.

Our team has been actively involved touring the property, identifying needs to bring the location up to ADA accessibility and have identified opening at 100% by Veteran’s Day 2018. We have been collaborating with the local community veterans, VFW, American Legion, Colorado State Department of Veterans Affairs, Colorado Governor’s Office Veteran Liaison.

Rocky Mountain Veterans Village 's Mission:Rocky Mountain Veterans Village ’s mission is to provide support and services to underprivileged Veterans and their families. By continuing services after the veteran has been released from the VA, we will continue services by providing housing, job skills training, behavioral/mental health counseling services and recreational activities; and reinvigorate the economy of the local and surrounding communities

Rocky Mountain Veterans Village 's goals and objectives: ■ Goals: ● Provide housing for homeless Veterans and their families● Provide job skill training/employment for homeless and unemployed Veterans● Provide behavioral/mental health counseling for Veterans and their family members• Support the local community by increasing business revenue, offering employment opportunities and providing recreational and leisure activities

■ Objectives:● Improve residential stability and the ability to acquire additional job skills● Improve employment opportunities through apprenticeships/hands on training programs● Improve the physical, mental and spiritual well-being of veterans and their family members through counseling services and participation in recreational activities● Improve the economy of the local and surrounding communities and its citizen well-being

Rocky Mountain Veterans Village 's focuses on:•Increased residential stability of participants•Greater self-determination of participants•Increased skill level and income potential of participants•Increased employment opportunities with apprenticeship and hands on training•Increased availability to transition into permanent housing through employment opportunities

Eligibility for Admission to our Veteran’s Homes •Served in any branch of the US Armed Forces• We are open to all era veterans. We do not discriminate between Pre and Post 911 Veterans﻿

This program allows the veterans to be trained and supported in hydroponic farming, and ranch management, livestock care, adaptive support for disabled veterans and their families. We are working on three locations in Washington State and one location in Virginia. These locations will be feeder locations for training, acquiring livestock, developing a relationship with area veterinarian clinics and hospitals for hands on training and care.

96% of the donations to this program will go directly to the Veterans Farming and Training Program. 4% of the funds will go to overhead electrical and water needs.

Rescue animals to rovide therapy to veterans

We are in negotiations on three other locations for housing and employment in teaming with the rescue animal shelters in three of these locations. Equine Therapy for rescue horses and dogs for veterans to assist in recovery which will intern provide therapy to the veterans. We have applied for grants and donation funding to support this program. These funds are for building maintenance, transportation of rescue animals, feed, veterinarian medicine, and training.

Eastern Washington Resouce Center TBD﻿

This location is to support rural veterans and the community. We have provided the information requested. We are presenting the city council about our programs and how Veterans Recreation Rehabilitation Center will be an asset to the city, county and region. There will be an hour of presentation, questions and answers for clarification. We will find out next week if we are blessed with the location.

Respecting the executive board’s decision and the city council, we are not posting the city, date or time of the meeting.

ServicesVeterans Recreation & Rehabilitation Center is an organization that provides transitional housing, job and life skill training for veterans. Additionally, we assist veterans in family services and support. This is particularly important as about 75% of the veterans are in need of supportive vocational, social, emotional services and recreational support the veterans cannot afford or have access to with disabilities.

This is one of the few organizations which serves all eras of veterans, have worked together to assist veterans with limited income and resources to work on their homes, make their homes accessible, assists veterans to keep their homes, creates jobs with short term apprenticeships in relationship to their military jobs and future goals in a career choice. Each veteran who enters the program agrees to complete random drug testing and develops a short and long term goals.

We will offer a collaborative approach to develop goals and self-sufficiency for the veterans and their family.

Memorial/Burial Fund

Memorial/Burial Fund

These funds will go directly to the veteran’s Memorial and burial costs which the family cannot afford and VA will not cover. Many veterans cannot afford life insurance. These funds will be used to help the veteran’s family where the VA dropped the ball. No veteran’s family should have to put out these fees and additional costs because the VA will not support our fallen.

At the present time, the VA will allow $2,000.00 for service connected and $750.00 for non-service connected for veteran’s funeral costs. The VA has determined many service connected deaths as non-service connected to save money. This means the families need to challenge the VA when they are in morning.